PositiveThe National ReviewReality, it turns out, is more complex and interesting than scientists ever imagined. But Who We Are and How We Got Here only begins by exploring our relationship to ancient lineages of humans gone by. The meat of the book deals with the human populations that are present today and how they — we — got here ... Who We Are and How We Got Here is less than 300 pages of text, but it is packed with startling facts and novel revelations that overturn the conventional expectations of both science and common sense. And after chapter upon chapter of dense scientific results, Reich concludes by making some observations about the social history of our species that is implied by ancient DNA ... Who we are is humanity. And how we got here is interesting, astounding, but at the end of the day incidental. We are here, and have been for a very long time.
